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• What is medical ethics?
• Why is medical ethics important?
• Who is affected by medical ethics?
• What is the role of medical ethics?
• Isn't ethics just what the law says?
• Who decides what is moral in medicine?
• How does medical ethics work in the real world?
• Why bother about medical ethics?
• What are some of the issues that medical ethics addresses?
• Who is a medical ethicist?
• What does philosophy have to do with medical ethics?
• Some of my papers and articles
• Who has said what in medical ethics
• Suggested readings on various topics

What is medical ethics?

Before one can answer this question, it is necessary to understand what ethics is. Ethics is that branch of philosophy which deals with matters of right and wrong. Medical ethics, then, is that branch of ethics which deals with matters of right and wrong in medicine.

Some of my papers and articles

Is your doctor a God?

This paper gives you a glimpse of real world medical ethics

Your moral police

This paper aims to dispell some of the myths surrounding medical ethics

Gene maps and moral maps

Competence and Informed Consent